Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Confident of one's own strength or qualifications; relying on the correctness of one's own judgment, or the capability of one's own powers, without other aid.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Confident of one's own strength or powers; relying on one's judgment or ability; self-reliant.
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- adjective Confident in one's abilities.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective showing poise and confidence in your own worth
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Examples
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Don't be alarmed, however: fans of Vile's distinctive deadpan mumbling and the band's gently rolling and Dylanesque guitar rock will still find their constituency represented – simply stated in a larger and arguably more self-confident fashion.
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Rattigan reinforces the point by contrasting Alma's brash, self-confident lover, George, with Edith's sexually diffident son who is the same age but driven to seek worldly experience with a prostitute.
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Thanks in part to Iraq and Afghanistan, we are, decades later, backing off from this self-confident universalism.
Time to avoid the dictatorship v democracy debate in Africa | David Booth 2011
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Mary Eleanor Bowes was brought up by her father to be a self-confident, ambitious, and clever girl.
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When we reconnected at a Middlebury Christmas party a couple of years ago, she informed me, being perhaps slightly under the influence of holiday cheer, that her self-confident college persona had been a ruse—that she was insecure, alienated and frankly didn't know how to have a good time.
She's Gone to the Dogs Ralph Gardner Jr. 2011
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He has to compete in a fierce job market, but he can't act too bossy or self-confident.
Where Have The Good Men Gone? Kay S. Hymowitz 2011
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In the case of my own parents, Claud and Patricia Cockburn, there were no traces of any mental disorder; both were highly self-confident and tough-minded.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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Even now I find their silence a little surprising, since most of them were sophisticated and self-confident, not likely to be intimidated by the “stigma” attached to anything to do with madness.
Henry’s Demons Patrick Cockburn 2011
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My point is that they are self-confident, and not worried about drawing attention to themselves as they used to be.
Shirley Williams: chair of the judges Janet Murray 2010
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Mary Eleanor Bowes was brought up by her father to be a self-confident, ambitious, and clever girl.
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